Port Mortuary

Name: Port Mortuary
Brand: Little Brown Book Group
SKU: 9780751543926
Price: 14.44 EUR
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By (author): Patricia Cornwell

The eighteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.

'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times

Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition, eerily close to Scarpetta's home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked in the cooler.

When the revolutionary 3D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen, she realizes that this is a case of murder - and that she is fighting a cunning and uniquely cruel enemy. Now it is a race against time to discover who and why before more people die. But that time is running out . . .

Praise for the groundbreaking series:

'One of the best crime writers writing today' Guardian

'Devilishly clever' Sunday Times

'The top gun in this field' Daily Telegraph

'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns' Mirror

'The Agatha Christie of the DNA age' Express

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Product Details

Weight: 342g
Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
Publication Date: 28 Apr 2011
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780751543926

About Patricia Cornwell

In 1990 Patricia Cornwell sold her first novel Postmortem while working at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond Virginia. An auspicious debut it went on to win the Edgar Creasey Anthony and Macavity Awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d'Aventures - the first book ever to claim all these distinctions in a single year. Growing into an international phenomenon the Scarpetta series won Cornwell the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author the Gold Dagger Award the RBA Thriller Award and the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contributions to literary and artistic development. Today Cornwell's novels and iconic characters are known around the world. Beyond the Scarpetta series Cornwell has written the definitive nonfiction account of Jack the Ripper's identity cookbooks a children's book a biography of Ruth Graham and three other fictional series based on the characters Win Garano Andy Brazil and Captain Calli Chase. Cornwell continues exploring the latest space-age technologies and threats relevant to contemporary life. Her interests range from the morgue to artificial intelligence and include visits to Interpol the Pentagon the U.S. Secret Service and NASA. Cornwell was born in Miami. She grew up in Montreat North Carolina and now lives and works in Boston.